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Gustav Svensson
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Swedish association football player (born 1987)
Key facts
- 2016
- Guangzhou R&F
- 2021
- Guangzhou City
- Full name
- Karl Gustav Johan Svensson
- Date of birth
- ( 1987-02-07 ) 7 February 1987 (age 39)
- Place of birth
- Gothenburg , Sweden
- Height
- 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
- Positions
- Defensive midfielder centre-back
- 1999 2000
- Azalea BK
- 2000 2001
- ES Le Cannet-Rocheville
- 2001 2005
- IFK Göteborg
- Years
- Team
- 2005 2010
- IFK Göteborg
- 2010 2012
- Bursaspor
- 2012 2014
- Tavriya Simferopol
- 2014 2015
- IFK Göteborg
- 2017 2020
- Seattle Sounders FC
- 2021 2025
- IFK Göteborg
- 2007 2009
- Sweden U21
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Gustav
- Family name
- Svensson
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Sweden
- Place of birth
- Gothenburg
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- Swedish
- Native language
- Swedish
- Participant in
- 2018 FIFA World Cup
- Sport
- association football
- Position played
- defender
- League
- Major League Soccer
- Country for sport
- Sweden
- Mass
- 82
- Image
- Gustav Svensson 2018 (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 183
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- date of birth
- 1987-02-07
- sport number
- 4
- Commons category
- Gustav Svensson
- start of work period
- 2005-00-00
- birth name
- Karl Gustav Johan Svensson
- name in native language
- Gustav Svensson
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Encyclopedic overview
Karl Gustav Johan Svensson (born 7 February 1987) is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder and centre-back. Starting off his footballing career in Sweden with IFK Göteborg in 2005, he went on to play professionally in Turkey, Ukraine, China, and the United States before returning to Sweden in 2021. A full international between 2009 and 2021, Svensson won 32 caps for the Sweden national team and represented his country at the 2018 FIFA World Cup as well as UEFA Euro 2020.
Club career
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gustav Svensson” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.